San Diego Fraud

San Diego · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, San Diego police open data recorded 898 fraud incidents, 1.2% of all 76,420 incidents reported in the city that year and down 9.1% from 2024. That is about 63.9 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 633 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in San Diego by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)633——
202589863.9down 9.1%
202498870.3down 6.3%
20231,05475.0down 26.7%
20221,437102down 35.8%
20212,237159up 15.3%
20201,940138—

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 9,187 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. Midway District 80 incidents
  2. Mira Mesa 37 incidents
  3. Pacific Beach 33 incidents
  4. Mission Valley East 28 incidents
  5. La Jolla 28 incidents
  6. North Park 24 incidents
  7. University City 23 incidents
  8. East Village 23 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in San Diego in 2025?

898, according to San Diego Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in San Diego?

Reported fraud was down 9.1% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 37.5% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: San Diego Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

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